Thutmose was an
ancient Egyptian
vizier under
Amenhotep III
Amenhotep III ( egy, jmn-ḥtp(.w), ''Amānəḥūtpū'' , "Amun is Satisfied"; Hellenized as Amenophis III), also known as Amenhotep the Magnificent or Amenhotep the Great, was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. According to different ...
, during the
18th Dynasty.
As vizier of the North (i.e. of
Lower Egypt
Lower Egypt ( ar, مصر السفلى '; ) is the northernmost region of Egypt, which consists of the fertile Nile Delta between Upper Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea, from El Aiyat, south of modern-day Cairo, and Dahshur. Historically, ...
), Thutmose officiated from
Memphis, while his southern counterpart was based in
Thebes. He was married to Tawy, and had at least two sons:
Ptahmose, who became
High Priest of Ptah in Memphis, and
Meryptah
Meryptah was a High Priest of Amun during the time of Amenhotep III.
He is known from a statue mentioning Meryptah with Anen, Amenemhat and Si-Mut who were a 2nd, 3rd and 4th prophet respectively. Aldred conjectures that Meryptah succeeded Pt ...
, who later assumed many titles such as prophet and chief steward of the
Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III.
Thutmose is depicted along with his son Ptahmose on a
false door-shaped stele now in
Florence (inv. 2565). He is mentioned also on a broken stele from Memphis, dedicated to his sons; the two portions of this stele are located in the
British Museum and in
Leiden respectively.
[Bosse-Griffiths, op. cit., pp. 56ff; pl. XIV.]
References
Bibliography
K. Bosse-Griffiths, "The Memphite Stela of Merptaḥ and Ptaḥmosĕ", ''
The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology'', Vol. 41 (Dec., 1955), pp. 56-63.
Viziers of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt
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